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Re: Question Time!

I'm part of the "I really don't care" religion. You can believe whatever your heart desires, just leave me out of it. I'll go about my life in my own way. If there's some higher god-like power, that's cool. If there isn't, that's also cool. Whatever it may be, it doesn't seem to affect my daily life much so I'll just be on my merry way.

Re: Question Time!

When I hear the word religion, I tend to think of rules, church and people worshipping a god. Some refer to it as God, the higher power, or the universe. To me, it doesn't really matter. I just have faith that something is out there and I'm free to do whatever the hell I want and not behave as religious people expect me to.

I refuse to be part of any religion, for reasons that I do not want to be tied up with their rules('you can't do this,' 'you have to do that,' 'you cannot wear that,) and beliefs ('Jesus is the son of God,' 'Jesus is God,' 'God's name is this, God's name is that').

Re: Question Time!

Personally, I hold two conflicting views: deism and ignosticism.

Raised Catholic, I am heavily biased toward the existence of a God.

Deism
I define God to be the creator of the universe. Assuming God exists and assuming the universe, as Its creation, is an accurate reflection of God, God is a cold and impersonal entity since I observe that the universe is brutal and autonomous. Either intentionally or by accident, we are part of this clockwork and must survive and propagate through our own means.

Ignosticism
God is ill defined at the very least. Religions makes all sorts of assumptions about God. Many, if not all, of those assumptions are not intuitive or obvious. Many of them are not even consistent among religions past and present (leading one to believe that none of them are likely to be true/accurate depictions of God, but that's a different post).

Re: Question Time!

I'm not of any religion. I do not believe in gods nor I do not not believe in gods. There is no way to prove it one way or the other, but either outcome is equally scary. But despite the fact that I am open to gods existing, I will never follow any of the man-made gods written in the various bibles of the world's religions.